She made it to the sand before forced to slow to a walk by the ankle-deep, loose sand.

He pulled her close, murmuring into her hair, "Just so you know, I plan to take those ankle socks off with my teeth later."

Ahead of her, Katie stepped off the wooden porch into the ankle high snow and followed the trail Carmen had broken earlier on her trip to light the stove in the dairy.

Was the ankle broken?

His right arm was bandaged with a fracture-snap, his left ankle as well.

The roots around Deidre's left foot snapped free. Katie shoved it aside before it could change its mind and started on the roots around her right foot. Deidre moved her foot with a look of pain. She rubbed her ankle, and Katie cut her arm again.

With a ring in my nose and a ball and chain on my ankle, no doubt.

Her ankle twisted as she landed on a rock, and she fell, yanking free another knife to block the guardsmen's first blow.

Shifting her weight off the injured ankle, she pushed away from him.

Grass brushed the skin above her ankle, tickling her.

They are sometimes buttoned at the ankle, especially in the Meerut district.

The artillery and baggage wagons moved noiselessly through the deep dust that rose to the very hubs of the wheels, and the infantry sank ankle-deep in that soft, choking, hot dust that never cooled even at night.